Linux – Can’t see external hard drive formatted by linux, inside windows

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I formatted a usb external hard drive in linux with ext4 format.

In windows 7, I deleted all these partitions using disk management. Windows doesn't display the drive when I connect it.

How do I fix this?

Best Answer

Go to Control Panel. Choose Administrative Tools.

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Choose Computer Management.

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Navigate to Storage->Disk Management inside current window. enter image description here

Now we have few possibilities:

  • You may need to format the whole disk to achieve either FAT32 or NTFS filesystem to be recognised by system
  • You may need to assign a letter for the disk (sometimes system fails to assign one)
  • You may need to create a partition and set it to active

Other options would depend on how the Storage tab looks like for you. It would help if you provide us some more information from this tab when external HDD is connected.

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